Word: adalberto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well then, he must not publish it in the Veracruz Official Gazette, thereby making it law. But the Gazette's press was already clanking and groaning last week when President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico finally decided to send an urgent, peremptory wire to Governor Adalberto Tejeda of the State of Veracruz...
...Jalapa the more Governor Adalberto Tejeda thought about the law the better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented...